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By: Wilbur, Homer [Lowell, James Russell]
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Ticknor & Co.: 1853
Seller ID: 2288768
Condition: Good
Missing title page and copyright page, minor loss to spine head, smudge on front board, pencil name on front endpaper, faint stain on second blank. 1853 Hard Cover. xxxii, 163 pp. In 1848, Lowell also published The Biglow Papers, later named by the Grolier Club as the most influential book of 1848.[37] The first 1,500 copies sold out within a week and a second edition was soon issued—though Lowell made no profit, as he had to absorb the cost of stereotyping the book himself.[38] The book presented three main characters, each representing different aspects of American life and using authentic... View more info
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Post-Courier: 1980
Seller ID: 2182546
Condition: Very Good
Light rubbing to wrappers. 1980 Stapled Binding. The story of Charleston's role in the Civil War, with a special focus on the attack of Fort Sumter. View more info
Price: $6.00
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge: 1978
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2179721
Condition: Near Fine
1995 printing. 1978 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 454 pp. Through excerpted letters, diary entries, newspaper accounts, and official records, Wiley offers the reader a complete portrait of the ordinary foot soldier in the Union Army during the Civil War. View more info
Price: $6.00
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press: 1978
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2179722
Condition: Near Fine
1996 printing. 1978 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 444 pp. Wiley offers a rare and complete portrait of the ordinary soldier of the Confederacy during the Civil War, via extensive research of letters, newspaper stories, official records, and excerpts from diary entries. View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Doubleday & Company, Inc.: 1971
Seller ID: 2121397
Condition: Good
Includes publisher's slipcase. Boards lightly stained, jacket edges rubbed with minor loss from corners, jackets toned.Good. 1971 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. Two volumes in publisher's slipcase. 444; 454 pp. Wiley offers a rare and complete portrait of the ordinary soldier of the Confederacy and of the Union during the Civil War, via extensive research of letters, newspaper stories, official records, and excerpts from diary entries. View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Bonanza: 1977
Seller ID: 2170942
Condition: Very Good
Light rubbing to jacket.Very Good. 1977 Large Hardcover. We have more books available by this author!. An authoritative and illustrated history of Southerners during the Civil War. Bell Irwin Wiley is a history professor at Emory University. Hirst Milhollen is a Curator of Photographs at the Library of Congress. View more info
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Bonanza: 1988
Seller ID: 2170944
Condition: Near Fine
An exceptional copy. Near Fine. 1988 Large Hardcover. We have more books available by this author!. Covers the day-to-day life of the Civil War soldier, from the size of a Minié ball, the original color of Confederate trousers, the prescribed ration on both sides, the weight and length of a Springfield rifled musket, the consistency of hardtack, the importance of the paymaster, the feeling of going into action, and what it meant to be wounded. View more info
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press: 2005
Seller ID: 2267107
ISBN: 0807104752
Condition: Near Fine
A very nice copy. 2005 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 444 pp. Wiley offers a rare and complete portrait of the ordinary soldier of the Confederacy during the Civil War, via extensive research of letters, newspaper stories, official records, and excerpts from diary entries. View more info
By: Wilhelm, Maria de Blasio; Marino, Enzo
Price: $15.00
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company: 1988
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2204560
ISBN: 0393025683
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. A fine copy.Near Fine. 1988 Hard Cover. 272 pp. This book traces the growth of the Resistance from its birth in 1943, against overwhelming odds, to its dramatic triumph two years later. A story of courage, sacrifice, and individual heroism--a noble episode in the history of a great people. Includes black-and-white photographs.Keywords: MARIA DE BLASIO WILHELM OTHER ITALY ITALIAN RESISTANCE IN WORLD WAR II HISTORY MILITARY SECOND WORLD WAR TWO WWII WW2 ENZO MARINO View more info
By: Wilkins, Warren
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Naval Institute Press: 2011
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2287364
ISBN: 1591149614
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Top corners of jacket bumped. 2011 Hard Cover. xvi, 283 pp. During 1965 and 1966, wrote Dale Andrade, a historian at the U.S. Army Center of Military History, the Communists fought the Americans toe to toe, making little effort to act like guerillas. Indeed, despite pronounced disadvantages in firepower and mobility, the Communist Vietnamese endeavored to crush South Vietnam and expel the American military with a strategy predicated on big unit war. Orchestrated by a militant clique in Hanoi, the big unit war was designed to yield a quick and decisive victory over South Vietnam.... View more info
Price: $6.00
Publisher: Quill: 1991
Edition: 2nd Printing
Seller ID: 2208509
Condition: Very Good
2nd printing. Wrappers have light crease. 1991 Trade Paperback. The history of the 57th Massachusetts in the last year of the Civil War. View more info
By: Willcox, Orlando B.; Scott, Robert Garth
Price: $12.00
Publisher: The Kent State University Press: 1999
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2265362
ISBN: 0873386280
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Jacket edges lightly bumped. 1999 Hard Cover. xxxii, 720 pp. The papers of Major General Orlando Bolivar Willcox, one of the most prominent division commanders in the Union army, were recently discovered locked in a trunk in a Washington, D.C., attic, virtually untouched since his death nearly a century ago. Editor Robert Garth Scott has sifted through what is arguably the largest collection of Civil War-related material to surface in fifty years. From his childhood in Detroit through his cadetship at West Point, his service in the Mexican, Seminole, and Civil Wars, and his post... View more info
By: Williams, Dion
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Epco Publishing Company: 1988
Seller ID: 1721855
Condition: Near Fine
1988 Stapled Binding. Unpaginated [40]. Original wrappers. A reference for uniforms and insignia in use during 1918, at the close of World War I. OCLC describes this as a 'Reprint of a work or part of a work done by the same author in 1918.' 5 copies of this edition are listed. View more info
Price: $75.00
Publisher: Fords, Howard & Hulbert / Franklin Press: Rand, Avery, and Company: 1883
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2283713
Condition: Very Good
Early printing. Spine slightly faded, corners a bit rubbed, ink name on front endpapers. 1883 Hard Cover. 454 pp. 8vo. American Civil War may be written without prejudice or passion. The memories of that gigantic struggle have mellowed, the bitterness of sectional feeling has died away; and men now view with clearer and calmer minds the issues which led to the conflict, and the motives governing its prosecution. The author of the following pages aims to present a faithful picture of scenes in camp and field, which, under the guise of fiction, will afford the new generation some idea of the tre... View more info
Price: $6.00
Publisher: HarperPerennial: 1993
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2261946
ISBN: 0060924454
Condition: Very Good
Remainder mark, pages lightly toned. 1993 Trade Paperback. xix, 457 pp. A biography of the Confederate cavalry leader describes his poor childhood in Mississippi, his adulthood as a millionaire slave trader, his rise through the ranks of the Confederate army, and his feats on the battlefield. View more info
By: Wills, Garry
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Simon & Schuster: 1993
Seller ID: 2194988
ISBN: 0671769561
Condition: Very Good
Very light edge wear. 1993 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. Winner of the Pulitzer prize in 1993, this is an account of the making of Lincoln's revolutionary masterpiece. Lincoln was asked to prepare a memorial for the battle at Gettysburg. Instead, he gave the whole nation a birth of freedom - by tracing its birth to the Declaration of Independence (which called all men equal) rather than the Constitution (which tolerated slavery). In the space of a mere 272 words, Lincoln combines the rhetoric of the Greek Revival and the categories of Transcendentalism, to prov... View more info
By: Wills, Garry
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Simon & Schuster: 1992
Seller ID: 2207183
Condition: Very Good
Wrappers and pages very faintly toned. 1992 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 317 pp. Winner of the Pulitzer prize in 1993, this is an account of the making of Lincoln's revolutionary masterpiece. Lincoln was asked to prepare a memorial for the battle at Gettysburg. Instead, he gave the whole nation a birth of freedom - by tracing its birth to the Declaration of Independence (which called all men equal) rather than the Constitution (which tolerated slavery). In the space of a mere 272 words, Lincoln combines the rhetoric of the Greek Revival and the categories of T... View more info
By: Wills, Garry
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Touchstone: 1992
Seller ID: 2207240
Condition: Good
Sticker adhesive to front and rear wrapper, wrappers lightly bumped. 1992 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 317 pp. Winner of the Pulitzer prize in 1993, this is an account of the making of Lincoln's revolutionary masterpiece. Lincoln was asked to prepare a memorial for the battle at Gettysburg. Instead, he gave the whole nation a birth of freedom - by tracing its birth to the Declaration of Independence (which called all men equal) rather than the Constitution (which tolerated slavery). In the space of a mere 272 words, Lincoln combines the rhetoric of the Greek R... View more info
By: Wilson, Edmund
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Oxford University Press: 1962
Seller ID: 2290749
Condition: Very Good
Lacks jacket. Front and end matter foxed, ink note on rear endpaper. 1962 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xxxii, 816 pp. 8vo. Critical/biographical portraits of such notable figures as Harriet Beecher Stowe, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Ambrose Bierce, Mary Chesnut, William Tecumseh Sherman, and Oliver Wendell Holmes prove Wilson to be the consummate witness to the most eloquently recorded era in American history. View more info
By: Wilson, G.E.; Leckie, Robert
Price: $35.00
Publisher: David McKay Company: 1943
Seller ID: 2283085
Condition: Good
Spine taped, loss to spine, wrappers starting to pull away from binding but still attached, page corners lightly dog-eared. 1943 Soft Cover. 192 pp. A guide to identifying World War II aircraft of the United States, Great Britain, Germany, Japan. Includes black-and-white illustrations. View more info
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Naval Institute Press: 1992
Edition: 2nd Printing
Seller ID: 2295908
ISBN: 1557509255
Condition: Near Fine
Second printing. A very nice copy. 1992 Hard Cover. 271 pp. Presents a first-hand account of a year spent with the one hundredth test pilot class at the Naval Air Test Center, from hours of test flights and interviews with naval and civilian test pilots and engineers. View more info
By: Wilson, H.W.; Hammerton, J.A.
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Amalgamated Press, Limited: 1917
Seller ID: 1834474
Condition: Good
Wrappers toned, lightly rubbed & foxed, staples gone. 1917 Stapled Binding. We have more books available by this author!. 193-216 pp. Original wrappers. Part of a periodical series released during World War I in London, specifically treating recent events of the Great War. Black & white and sepia photographs throughout, several maps. View more info
By: Wilson, H.W.; Hammerton, J.A.
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Amalgamated Press, Limited: 1918
Seller ID: 1834483
Condition: Good
Wrappers toned & rubbed, light stain on bottom corner (about 1/10 of page). 1918 Stapled Binding. We have more books available by this author!. 461-480 pp. Original wrappers. Part of a periodical series released during World War I in London, specifically treating recent events of the Great War. Black & white and sepia photographs throughout, several maps. View more info
By: Wilson, H.W.; Hammerton, J.A.; Askew, Claude
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Amalgamated Press, Limited: 1917
Seller ID: 1834480
Condition: Very Good
Wrappers toned & foxed. 1917 Stapled Binding. 337-360 pp. Original wrappers. Part of a periodical series released during World War I in London, specifically treating recent events of the Great War. Black & white and sepia photographs throughout, several maps. View more info
By: Wilson, H.W.; Hammerton, J.A.; Koebel, W.H.
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Amalgamated Press, Limited: 1917
Seller ID: 1834482
Condition: Very Good
Wrappers toned, lightly rubbed & foxed. 1917 Stapled Binding. 361-384 pp. Original wrappers. Part of a periodical series released during World War I in London, specifically treating recent events of the Great War. Black & white and sepia photographs throughout, several maps. View more info
By: Wilson, H.W.; Hammerton, J.A.; Wright, Edward
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Amalgamated Press, Limited: 1917
Seller ID: 1834475
Condition: Good
Wrappers loose but included, wrappers toned, lightly rubbed & foxed. 1917 Stapled Binding. 217-240 pp. Original wrappers. Part of a periodical series released during World War I in London, specifically treating recent events of the Great War. Black & white and sepia photographs throughout, several maps. View more info
Price: $175.00
Publisher: The National Publishing Co. / J.R. Jones: 1881
Seller ID: 2291645
Condition: Very Good
Hinges beginning to weaken, edges a bit rubbed, spine gilt mostly rubbed away, pencil name on front endpaper. 1881 Hard Cover. iv, 976, [4] pp. Green cloth, black titles and decorations, gilt embellishments on front board and spine. A fairly early history of the American Civil War, illustrated with engravings of battles and portraits of many leading generals. View more info
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Harper Collins: 1998
Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)
Seller ID: 2269895
ISBN: 0965792951
Condition: Fine
A fine copy. 1998 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. xi, 242 pp. The Professor and the Madman, masterfully researched and eloquently written, is an extraordinary tale of madness, genius, and the incredible obsessions of two remarkable men that led to the making of the Oxford English Dictionary -- and literary history. The compilation of the OED began in 1857, it was one of the most ambitious projects ever undertaken. As definitions were collected, the overseeing committee, led by Professor James Murray, discovered that one man, Dr. W. C. Minor, had submitted more th... View more info
Price: $6.00
Publisher: Harper Perennial: 2005
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2272186
ISBN: 0060839783
Condition: Very Good
Light general wear. 2005 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. xiii, 242, 16 pp. The Professor and the Madman, masterfully researched and eloquently written, is an extraordinary tale of madness, genius, and the incredible obsessions of two remarkable men that led to the making of the Oxford English Dictionary -- and literary history. The compilation of the OED began in 1857, it was one of the most ambitious projects ever undertaken. As definitions were collected, the overseeing committee, led by Professor James Murray, discovered that one man, Dr. W. C. Minor, had subm... View more info
By: Winik, Jay
Price: $3.00
Publisher: Perennial / Harper Collins: 2002
Edition: 1st Printing
Seller ID: 2184257
Condition: Very Good
First paperback printing. Top corner creased. 2002 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. xvi, 461 pp. Jay Winik offers a brilliant new look at the Civil War's final days that will forever change the way we see the war's end and the nation's new beginning. Uniquely set within the larger sweep of history, and filled with rich profiles of outsize figures, fresh iconoclastic scholarship, and a gripping narrative, this is a masterful account of the thirty most pivotal days in the life of the United States. View more info
